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Written Question
Shipping: Gas Oil
Tuesday 8th November 2016

Asked by: James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many British vessels have been prosecuted for using red diesel in (a) non-UK European waters and (b) waters controlled by the government of Belgium.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The Government does not hold this information.

Written Question
Boats: Belgium
Friday 28th October 2016

Asked by: James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make representations to the Belgian government on allowing owners of UK leisure craft to use Belgian port facilities without fear of prosecution where those vessels are powered by red diesel purchased in the UK in accordance with UK tax regulations; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The use of red diesel with full duty paid to propel private pleasure craft is allowed within UK waters under UK legislation. If red diesel is used outside UK waters the national legislation, including restrictions and prohibitions, of other Member States applies. This includes Belgium, or any other country in whose coastal waters it is used.

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 18 Oct 2016
Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill

"My hon. Friend is making lucid points with which I agree fully, but he recommends that Ministers could make a change through statutory instrument. Would he perhaps consider allowing them to make the change without a statutory instrument, maybe by short consultation or even ministerial decision? That would be liberalisation...."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 18 Oct 2016
Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill

"I dropped off my kids at beavers and cubs; and one of them is going to scouts. In this amendment, would the division apply to the 2nd Thorpe Bay unit, or would it apply to each constituent part, whether beavers, scouts, cubs, guides and so on?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill

"I thank my hon. Friend for giving way before going into more detail. I fully appreciate the need for extra simplicity. Would not a bold step be to assume that all charitable donations are subject to tax relief overall? I appreciate that that cannot be done straightaway because enormous sums …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill

"While I fully support the point that the Minister makes, I can conceive of a time when it is decided in a review that that link is not the correct one. Will the Minister consider adding a clause in Committee that would allow us to take out that requirement without …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill

"Quite often in these debates, we hear the House of Commons Library quoted, but very rarely do we hear the words “Labour party research”. In order that we can look at those figures in a little more detail, would she be prepared to put that work and the workings that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill

"Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker; it is great to catch your eye. It has been a while since I spoke from the Back Benches, and I have certainly never before spoken after the hon. Member for Aberdeen North (Kirsty Blackman).

This place is at its best when we can use …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill

"I thank my hon. Friend for pulling me up. In fact, round the corner from my office is a charity that supports people in Uganda, which was within the geographic patch that I was responsible for. It is indeed a Southend charity and it would receive some of the benefits …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2016
Small Charitable Donations and Childcare Payments Bill

"I thank my hon. Friend for that; perhaps he will take this as a complaint from a humble member of the public. If he joined me in trying to get from Fenchurch Street station to Tower Hill in the morning, on the way to the House of Commons, he would …..."
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